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Covid-status certificate scheme could be unlawful discrimination, says EHRC

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Covid-status certificates being considered by ministers to help open up society could amount to unlawful indirect...
Covid-status certificates being considered by ministers to help open up society could amount to unlawful indirect discrimination, the government’s independent equalities watchdog has advised.As ministers decide whether the documents should be introduced as passports to certain events later this year, the Equality an...

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Irish-born DUP peer refuses to take Home Office test for British passport

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A Democratic Unionist peer has said he has been forced to hold an Irish passport because...
A Democratic Unionist peer has said he has been forced to hold an Irish passport because of discrimination by the Home Office.Willie Hay, Lord Hay of Ballyore, told MPs he would not submit to a Life in the UK citizenship test and neither should 40,000 other people like him who were born across the border but have li...

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Greensill: Keir Starmer says there is ‘open door’ between Boris Johnson’s government and lobbyists – live

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7.41am EDT 07:41 Updated at 7.42am EDT 7.34am EDT 07:34 7.33am EDT 07:33 7.29am EDT 07:29...
7.41am EDT 07:41 Updated at 7.42am EDT 7.34am EDT 07:34 7.33am EDT 07:33 7.29am EDT 07:29 Updated at 7.39am EDT 7.23am EDT 07:23 Boris Johnson can't remember last time he spoke to David Cameron Updated at 7.38am EDT 7.22am EDT 07:22 'See you in court,' Ian Blackford tells Johnson over UN convention on children's rig...

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Scotland to lift Covid restrictions ahead of schedule

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Nicola Sturgeon has accelerated the relaxation of restrictions on travel and outdoor meetings as she said...
Nicola Sturgeon has accelerated the relaxation of restrictions on travel and outdoor meetings as she said Covid was “in retreat” in Scotland.Announcing the changes, which will allow Scots to meet up with family and friends across the country outside in larger groups, the first minister said that from this Friday: Pe...

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Tories accused of corruption and NHS privatisation by former chief scientist

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Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of corruption, privatising the NHS by stealth, operating a “chumocracy”...
Boris Johnson’s government has been accused of corruption, privatising the NHS by stealth, operating a “chumocracy” and mishandling the pandemic and climate crisis, by Sir David King, a former government chief scientist.“I am extremely worried about the handling of the coronavirus pandemic, about the processes by wh...

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Peers seek to block limit on UK soldiers’ accountability for war crimes

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Peers behind a cross-party amendment to halt plans to restrict prosecutions of torture and war crimes...
Peers behind a cross-party amendment to halt plans to restrict prosecutions of torture and war crimes by British soldiers serving abroad are hopeful of inflicting a high-profile defeat on the government in the Lords on Tuesday.A group led by former Nato secretary general and Labour defence secretary Lord Robertson w...

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David Cameron faces unprecedented formal inquiry into Greensill scandal

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David Cameron is at the centre of an unprecedented formal inquiry after Boris Johnson ordered a...
David Cameron is at the centre of an unprecedented formal inquiry after Boris Johnson ordered a probe into lobbying by the former prime minister on behalf of the collapsed company Greensill Capital.The independent investigation will examine the firm’s role in government, supply chain financing and communications by ...

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Greensill scandal: government orders inquiry into Cameron lobbying

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Independent investigation launched into former PM’s lobbying for now-collapsed firmNo 10 is to a launch an...
Independent investigation launched into former PM’s lobbying for now-collapsed firmNo 10 is to a launch an independent investigation into former prime minister David Cameron’s lobbying for the now-collapsed Greensill and the role of the scandal-hit financier Lex Greensill in government.The independent review, commis...

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‘Out of Trump playbook’: UK accused of ‘abandoning’ women with cuts to aid

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The director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of “abandoning”...
The director of a leading sexual and reproductive health charity has accused the government of “abandoning” women and girls it promised to help, as aid cuts derail a leading Tory programme to reduce maternal deaths and prevent unsafe abortions in poor countries. The threat to the women’s integrated sexual health (Wi...

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Steve Bell’s If … Boris Johnson takes back control in Northern Ireland

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PM will allow second referendum if SNP wins, says Sturgeon

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Boris Johnson will not oppose a second independence referendum if the Scottish National party wins a...
Boris Johnson will not oppose a second independence referendum if the Scottish National party wins a majority in the election next month, Nicola Sturgeon has said, with some UK government ministers reportedly conceding it is an inevitability.In an interview with the Guardian, Scotland’s first minister said: “If peop...

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When I was young, I left Sudan in search of ‘success’. Now I yearn for family and home | Nesrine Malik

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For as long as I have been able to remember, I have known that I would...
For as long as I have been able to remember, I have known that I would not always live where I was born. I knew that at some point, I would have to leave my country of Sudan if I wanted to secure work that would provide a meaningful living.At the time, it wasn’t a sad realisation but more an exciting prospect, one t...

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‘She made a pact with God’: why the Queen is not likely to abdicate

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The Queen, newly widowed, will find it “difficult” without the support she has leant on over...
The Queen, newly widowed, will find it “difficult” without the support she has leant on over 73 years of marriage to the Duke of Edinburgh, but royal observers have dismissed any speculation that she might consider stepping down.The former prime minister Sir John Major acknowledged that her position as monarch was “...

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Making sense of conspiracy theorists as the world gets more bizarre

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In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just...
In 1999 I sat in a Vancouver café with a group of anti-capitalist activists. They’d just returned from protesting the WTO in Seattle to find a new, far stranger foe in town – David Icke. He was there to lecture about how the ruling elite are actually child-sacrificing, blood-drinking paedophile lizards in human disg...

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Vaccine boost pushes Tories’ approval rating on Covid into positive territory

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Overall approval for the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic is now positive for the first...
Overall approval for the government’s handling of the Covid pandemic is now positive for the first time since May last year, in the latest sign that the vaccine rollout has helped transform its fortunes.The latest Opinium poll for the Observer found that 44% now approve of the government’s Covid handling, with 36% d...

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Publish figures on long Covid to show ‘untold suffering’, MPs urge

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The number of people suffering with long Covid should be published routinely, as happens with those...
The number of people suffering with long Covid should be published routinely, as happens with those infected with or hospitalised with coronavirus, MPs and peers are urging Boris Johnson.The cross-party group of parliamentarians want the prime minister to ensure that the “untold human suffering” that the condition i...

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Woman rejected for settled status despite living in UK for 17 years

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A campaigner for EU citizens’ rights in the UK has said she is in a state...
A campaigner for EU citizens’ rights in the UK has said she is in a state of shock after the Home Office rejected her application for settled status despite her having lived in the the country for more than half her life.Dahaba Ali, 27, moved to the UK at the age of 10. She was born in the Netherlands where her moth...

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UK Covid cases could rise again despite vaccine progress – WHO official

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The success of Britain’s vaccine programme is not enough to protect it from another wave of...
The success of Britain’s vaccine programme is not enough to protect it from another wave of coronavirus unconnected to rising cases in Europe, a senior World Health Organization expert has said.Dr Catherine Smallwood, a senior emergency officer at WHO Europe, also said confidence in vaccines may have dipped after ch...

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